Trump and Kim one year on: A 'beautiful letter', stalled diplomacy

A year after President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met for the first time, they appear committed to a personal bond upon which hopes for peace appear to rest, despite a stalemate in eff...

Trump says he got ‘very beautiful letter’ from Kim Jong Un President Trump on Friday said he has received a “very beautiful letter” from Kim Jong Un, adding that he could have another meeting with the North Korean leader — whose regime continues to test ballistic missiles. Speaking to reporters at the White House before leaving for a fundraiser in the Hampt...20:52 2019-08-09

Trump says he got a ‘beautiful’ letter from Kim Jong Un ​President Trump ​said he received a “​beautiful” and “very warm” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and suggested they could meet for their third summit. ​​“We have a very good relationship together​ ​… I think something will happen, but in the meantime, we ha...23:13 2019-06-11

Trump says Kim Jong Un sent him a 'really beautiful letter' President Trump said on Friday that he received a "really beautiful letter" from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the latest development after a tumultuous two weeks in which North Korea fired off several ballistic missiles....22:52 2019-08-09

Trump hails 'very beautiful letter' from Kim and says additional talks likely President did not say when such a meeting will take place while North Korea has been testing missilesPresident Donald Trump has said he had received a “very beautiful letter” from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and added that he could have another meeting with him.Speaking to reporters on Fri...22:26 2019-08-09

Trump hails 'beautiful letter' from Kim Jong Un President Donald Trump touted what he called a "beautiful" and "very warm" letter that he received Monday from Kim Jong Un as he lavished praise on the North Korean leader and predicted something "very positive" will happen soon. (June 11)
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Former US negotiator weighs in on Trump diplomacy A former U.S. ambassador to South Korea is skeptical of President Donald Trump's recent diplomatic moves, including his meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the border between North and South Korea. (July 2)
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DMZ diplomacy? Trump outreach to Kim for border rendezvous President Donald Trump plans a Sunday visit to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, and he’s extended an invitation on Twitter to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to join him and shake hands....18:39 2019-06-29

Trump officials to meet with GOP leaders to revive stalled budget talks President Donald Trump’s budget negotiators are planning to meet with Republican leaders at the Capitol Wednesday to try and wriggle out of a stalemate with Democrats ahead of a series of key fiscal deadlines. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and ac...17:26 2019-07-10

Write Your Kid a Letter Every Year on Their Birthday When my son turned one year old, I sat down to write him a letter. I wanted to talk to him, to tell him how monumentally he had grown over the past year. I wanted to remember how his newborn legs were so skinny, I could wrap my thumb and pinky finger around them with room to spare. I wanted to bottl...22:26 2019-07-18

'A beautiful stage closes': Diego Forlán retires after 21-year playing career ‘What I lived in these 21 years ... I have no words’Luis Suárez pays tribute to Uruguay teammateThe former Manchester United and Uruguay forward Diego Forlán has announced his retirement. The 40-year-old, who also played for Villarreal, Atlético Madrid and Internazionale, revealed his decision on Tw...21:13 2019-08-07

'Truth hurts': China's envoys try out Trump-style Twitter diplomacy Beijing’s representatives abroad are harnessing social media to confront critics Chinese envoys are experimenting with a new kind of Trump-style public diplomacy – Twitter spats.Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats abroad, not traditionally known for being outspoken, have started to use...08:52 2019-07-17

Scammer sends elaborate letter to 87-year-old Post reader Dear John: My 87-year-old husband received this scam in the mail recently. I thought you might like to give your readers a heads up. C.W. Dear C.W.: I can’t print the letter here but it is very interesting. This is the same scam that’s been going on for years. Someone left money without a will......20:26 2019-08-04

Trump defends tariff threat against Mexico, calls it ‘beautiful thing’ President Trump called tariffs a “beautiful thing,” credited his use of them with forcing Mexico to reach a deal with the US on immigration and predicted the duties will also pressure China to give in on trade. Trump defended employing tariffs as a negotiating tactic and said without the...19:26 2019-06-10

Letter From Mexican President Goes Way Over Trump’s Head Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)
responded to a threat by Donald Trump over new tariffs on Mexican goods with a
letter focused on concepts Trump can’t possibly understand: dignity, fairness, compassion,
and principles....23:00 2019-06-01

Pompeo confirms Trump sent Kim Jong Un letter Mike Pompeo, the U.S. secretary of state, on Sunday confirmed reports that President Trump sent North Korea’s Kim Jong Un a letter that was described by Kim in foreign reports as “excellent.”...09:13 2019-06-24

North Korea: Kim receives ‘excellent’ letter from Trump PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A government-controlled new agency says that President Donald Trump sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a letter.
The Korean Central News Agency reports Sunday that Kim “said with satisfaction that the letter is of excellent content.”
The agency adds: R...03:26 2019-06-23

Hundreds of companies decry tariffs in letter to Trump NEW YORK (AP) — More than 600 companies and trade associations, including Walmart and Target, have signed a letter telling President Donald Trump that an escalating trade war with China will hurt families, jobs and the U.S. economy.
The letter, dated Thursday and organized by a business coalition ca...23:39 2019-06-13

Experts think Trump policy on China counterproductive: draft letter Scores of Asia specialists, including former U.S. diplomats and military officers, want President Donald Trump to rethink policies that "treat China as an enemy," warning the approach could hurt U.S. interests and the global economy, according to a draft open letter reviewed by Reuters on Saturday....00:26 2019-06-30

President Trump: Kim Jong Un Apologized for Missile Tests in Letter BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to meet once again to “start negotiations” after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end. He also said Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests th...22:39 2019-08-10

Schumer, Pelosi send letter to Trump to take action on guns Calling the moment “critical,” Sen. Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent President Trump a letter on Sunday urging him to expand background checks and use his influence to sway Republicans in the Senate who blocked the bill passed by the House earlier this year....18:00 2019-09-09

VW Stalled Bond Probe, SEC Says The auto maker dragged out a federal investigation into whether it defrauded U.S. bond investors by omitting details about its efforts to cheat on diesel- emissions tests, according to the SEC....01:13 2019-07-09

Revealed: 5G rollout is being stalled by rows over lampposts Exclusive: plans to put network transmitters on tall structures has caused dozens of disputesThe rollout of the 5G telecommunications network is being stalled by at least two years over legal wrangling about the control of millions of lampposts, the Guardian can reveal.Lampposts have suddenly become...15:52 2019-05-21

Stalled L train turns evening commute into a nightmare Rush hour L train service ground to a halt Thursday evening after a train stalled in the Canarsie Tunnel that runs underneath the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the MTA said. The train stopped just before 5 p.m. and passengers had to be escorted out of the tunnel via a “rescue trai...06:00 2019-06-28

New partnership puts long-stalled 520 Fifth project on track There’s new life for the long-stalled Midtown development site at 520 Fifth Ave., at East 43rd Street. Rabina Properties just closed on a joint-venture partnership for the vacant corner lot in which it will take over the driver’s seat from Ceruzzi Properties and SMI, The Post has learned. The 800-fo...10:26 2019-07-02

Icahn launches proxy fight after stalled talks with Occidental CEO Activist investor Carl Icahn on Thursday formally launched a proxy fight against Occidental Petroleum to win control of four board seats, according to a regulatory filing, after talks with the oil company's chief executive failed to reach an agreement....03:52 2019-07-19

BuzzFeed staff stages walkout over stalled union contract Angry journalists at BuzzFeed staged a walkout in four cities on Monday to protest what they say is management’s stonewalling of their efforts to hammer out a first-ever union contract. The union for the website known for cat videos and listicles says the company has been stalling over contract nego...08:13 2019-06-18

US diplomacy pushing Middle East towards war, says ex-UK minister Alistair Burt sums up Donald Trump’s policy in the region as ‘hit them in the nuts first’America’s “hit them in the nuts first” diplomacy is helping put the Middle East on a dangerous trajectory towards a regional war, Alistair Burt, the UK’s minister for the region until last month, has warned.On t...15:13 2019-05-31

Pelosi calls McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch’ over Russian meddling, stalled gun bills Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday taunted Mitch McConnell, using the nickname “Moscow Mitch” while lambasting the Senate majority leader for blocking bills to promote gun safety and protect US elections from foreign meddling. “We all want to invest in building our democracy and saving it from any enemies fo...03:00 2019-08-15

Lawmakers score $270K jackpot in campaign donations from stalled gambling bill The only big winners from the state’s stalled sports gambling bill were the lawmakers — they scored a $270,000 jackpot in campaign donations from casinos and gambling apps. Gambling-industry players set to cash in on the mothballed proposal — which would have allowed New Yorkers to place sport...23:39 2019-06-22

U.S. blames Iran for Saudi attacks, 'pretend' diplomacy U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused Iran of leading attacks on Saudi oil plants that have cut the kingdom's output roughly in half, as he ruled out Yemeni involvement and denounced Tehran for engaging in false diplomacy....09:39 2019-09-15

North Korea calls Pompeo 'poisonous' to diplomacy Ri Yong-ho says US secretary of state cast ‘dark shadows’ over nuclear talksNorth Korea’s top diplomat has called the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, a “diehard toxin” who only complicates denuclearisation talks and said North Korea was ready for both dialogue and standoff.Talks aimed at dismant...10:52 2019-08-23

No technocrat, Lagarde brings listening, diplomacy to ECB table Christine Lagarde will raise the profile of the European Central Bank, making it a more politically-savvy institution that takes its message directly to the people. However policy innovation, the trademark of her predecessor, may be relegated....13:52 2019-07-03

Indonesia looks east to expand Pacific diplomacy, trade Indonesia will establish diplomatic relations with the Pacific states of Niue and Cook Islands while pursuing trade deals with Fiji and Papua New Guinea, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Friday, as the country moves to strengthen regional ties....11:13 2019-07-12

Darroch's resignation may have chilling effect on diplomacy, experts warn UK ambassador to the US’s departure may prompt ‘very big change’ in how international diplomacy is conductedThe resignation of Sir Kim Darroch as the UK’s ambassador to the US after controversy over leaked memos in which he criticized Donald Trump could have a chilling effect on international diplom...22:13 2019-07-10

Iran gears up for high-stakes diplomacy amid tension with US As its nuclear deal with world powers unravels amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran will see a week of high-stakes diplomacy capped by the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution...19:13 2019-06-09

United States blames Iran for Saudi attacks, 'pretend' diplomacy U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused Iran of leading attacks on Saudi oil plants that have cut the kingdom's output roughly in half, as he ruled out Yemeni involvement and denounced Tehran for engaging in false diplomacy....02:52 2019-09-15

The world's most beautiful places The world's a spectacular place, full of hidden and overt beauty in every corner. But beauty's also subjective. It'd be impossible to get a unanimous decision on the most beautiful places around the world, but we believe this list is a good start to plan your travels....23:26 2019-06-07

Is this the world's most beautiful metro? When the Moscow Metro was first announced in the 1930s, the city's residents were immediately fascinated by how it might look. Station designs were reportedly displayed in shop windows along bustling Tverskaya Street, fueling Muscovites' curiosity toward the new underground network....14:00 2019-07-08

Ni No Kuni's Remaster Is Looking Beautiful, Of Course 2011's Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch still looks amazing, so it doesn’t really need a remaster for its new platforms. But it’s getting one, and everyone with a Switch, PS4 and/or PC who hasn’t played it is in for a treat....04:39 2019-06-12

6 of India's most beautiful desserts While more and more food lovers around the world can wax poetic about their favorite tandoori chicken or pillowy naan bread, Indian desserts haven't (yet) captured that same fervor globally....15:52 2019-05-29

The most beautiful villages in Italy These are 20 of Italy's most beautiful villages -- from the isolated hilltop of Civita di Bagnoregio to the Sicilian fishing port of Marzamemi. Check out CNN Travel's list and then start planning your holiday....12:26 2019-05-22

Germany's most beautiful places Germany has been center stage through much of world history. Today, travelers head to the fascinating city of Berlin to get a firsthand look at remnants of 20th century events, such as World War II and the Cold War....17:39 2019-07-11

‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ is more than a biopic If you were raised on Mister Rogers, you may find your tear ducts a little wobbly at the first plinking piano notes that play during the opening credits of “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Director Marielle Heller (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) jumps right into a re-creat...19:39 2019-09-08

30 of India's most beautiful places India is a land of bountiful landscapes from stunning lakes, rolling plains and the snow-capped Himalayas to buildings of worldwide acclaim. See 30 of India's most beautiful places....00:39 2019-08-30

20 of Brazil's most beautiful places From its stunning beaches to its amazing interior, Brazil is a feast for the eyes. Here are 20 of its most beautiful places to visit when you travel to South America's largest country....06:00 2019-05-29

World's most beautiful castles From the fairytale towers of Bavaria's Neuschwanstein to the golden battlements of Jaipur's Amber Fortress in India, these are some of the most beautiful castles around the world....11:13 2019-08-07

Pompeo: US Mexico deal 'diplomacy at its finest' Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended President Donald Trump's deal with Mexico to avert tariffs, calling it "a win for the American people" and insisting the scale and commitment are much greater than what was agreed to previously. (June 10)
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11 beautiful reasons to visit Latvia Positioned on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia, Latvia is an impressive mix of art nouveau architecture and pristine nature. Discover 11 of the most beautiful places in Latvia....00:39 2019-08-30

In a Trade Fight, Small Could Be Beautiful Again Until recently, investors saw smaller companies as a trusty shield against trade tensions. Given the health of the U.S. domestic economy, they should see them that way again....15:26 2019-05-22

31 beautiful reasons to visit England Discover England's most beautiful places. From the wild North York Moors to the ancient Roman sites in Bath, you be enchanted by scenes natural and man-made....06:39 2019-09-05

Elizabeth Warren, Put Your Beautiful Dog in the Trash Elizabeth Warren is perhaps the most intellectually sound left-wing candidate in a generation. Her moral purpose and keen policy sense could propel her all the way to the White House. There is just one thing she needs to do first: get rid of her fake ass dog—forever....17:39 2019-05-28

How to Get the Beautiful 'Quake II RTX' Re-release for Free The classic first-person shooter Quake II is getting re-released with some awesome graphical updates. Better yet, it’ll be completely free for you to download starting on June 6—though you’re going to need a solid Nvidia GPU in your PC or laptop in order to play it....21:52 2019-05-28

Commodities & The Beautiful "Signal" of Opportunity Commodities may be more volatile than stock and bond markets, yet commodity prices still unfold in clear Elliott wave patterns. Those patterns are the signal amidst the noise -- see a case in point from a recent forecast in Monthly Commodities Junctures....21:00 2019-05-21

Please Enjoy This Beautiful Minecraft House As old as Minecraft is, I’ll never get tired of appreciating just how good it looks when people put the effort in. I know a lot of games can get modded to Hell and back and look great, but there’s something about the distance blocky ol’ Minecraft has to travel to get there that makes it particularly...05:13 2019-06-03

Beautiful mooo-sic? – sax player serenades cattle (KGW) A video of an Oregon man playing the saxophone for a herd of cattle has gone viral.
Rick Herrmann works in the tech world during the day and coaches fitness and nutrition at night. Seven months ago, he started playing the saxophone.
“I was saying to myself ‘some day I want to learn the s...00:52 2019-07-02

Outer Wilds' Time Loop Is Beautiful In Outer Wilds, you have 22 minutes to launch into space before your sun goes supernova. The objective isn’t to avoid this fate—no one knows it’s coming. Instead, you, a four-eyed alien from the peaceful planet of Timber Hearth, are merely doing what your culture prizes above all else: exploring. Af...19:39 2019-06-04

Forget Everything You Know About Gravity In This Beautiful Puzzle Game Playing Etherborn is like taking a hike through a series of colorful terraria that have been warped and torn apart by mysterious cosmic forces, causing gravity to shift like the sides of a Rubik’s Cube. It can be bewildering, but it’s never unpleasant—like a dream you can’t quite make sense of, but ...21:39 2019-07-18

‘Beautiful Day’ trailer: First look at Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers Do you buy “the nicest guy in Hollywood” as Mister Rogers? The first trailer for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” the new Fred Rogers biopic, premiered Monday, and it features two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks in full cardigan and loafer mode. “I think the b...19:00 2019-07-22

Aaron Judge’s home run was a beautiful promise kept LOS ANGELES — Promise made. Promise kept. The Yankees set a record for home runs in a month, hitting three Sunday to increase their August total to 61 and beat Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers 5-1 at Dodger Stadium to take the series, in what could be a preview of the World Series. Before the......09:26 2019-08-26

Small is beautiful in Tokyo's Golden Gai – in pictures Nearly 300 bars and restaurants are squeezed into an area about the size of half a football pitch in the Golden Gai area of Tokyo. Everything is smaller and narrower in this warren of shacks, a sliver of old Tokyo in a modern metropolis Continue reading......14:39 2019-08-12

Friday Forecast: A beautiful weekend ahead TUCSON – The 80s will return this afternoon.
After a weather system passed through our area yesterday, it left behind cooler conditions.
Today, you can expect dry conditions and a quick warm-up.
Today’s daytime highs in Southern Arizona will be about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. Tu...23:39 2019-05-24

Beautiful Pink Rainbows Light Up Sky Over England Pink rainbows were spotted all over the south and west of England on Monday evening. The rare sight lit up the skies as well as social media, where people shared tons of pics of the rainbows....18:39 2019-06-27

Away’s Aluminum Edition ‘smart’ suitcase is beautiful, but not worth the ca$h If there was an incredibly niche contest for the most Instagrammed suitcase — which, in a perfect world, there would be — that award would have to go to Away. Away has almost half a million IG followers, and for good reason — their smart cases are pretty, minimal, and come in very aesthetically-ple...08:26 2019-07-23

'A beautiful dream destroyed': Britons in EU on no-deal Brexit British citizens living in EU27 nations tell of feeling abandoned as a no-deal exit looms on horizonIf Brexit ends in no deal, many British people who live in the EU will become foreigners overnight – “third-country nationals” in legal language.There is no EU equivalent of settled status for the 1.3...11:13 2019-09-07

Behind the scenes at Earth’s most beautiful rocket launch site Enlarge / Whatever angle you'd prefer, New Zealand offers some pretty good views... (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
MAHIA PENINSULA, New Zealand—Not a blade of grass longer than the rest, a red “Remove Before Flight” tag unchecked, or a single Kiwi (be it bird or engineer) out of place: Rocket Lab’s Lau...23:26 2019-08-25

'Beautiful and terrifying': revisiting American cities in darkness For nearly 50 years, the photographer Camilo José Vergara has been documenting poor, segregated neighborhoods in large US cities. A few years ago, he started photographing his ‘familiar haunts’ at night. To him, ‘these nocturnal worlds are both beautiful and terrifying’ Continue reading......18:00 2019-07-31

See Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers in ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ trailer By Lindsay Lowe, TODAY
Hello, neighbor!
The full trailer just dropped for “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” the Mister Rogers biopic starring Tom Hanks, and it’s bound to give fans the warm fuzzies.
The movie is based on the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod (Mat...22:39 2019-07-22

Samsung's new range of Bespoke Fridges are beautiful, but not smart How often do you look at your fridge? Probably not often, you’re thinking. It’s just, sort of, there, isn’t it? But if, like most humans, you consume food on a daily basis, you’re probably going to and from your fridge at least twice daily. It might as well be nice, even ...15:39 2019-09-05

Review: Disney’s New The Lion King Is Beautiful But Soulless Unless you’re 99, and maybe even then, your first big-screen moviegoing experience was likely a Disney movie. Disney productions—whether we’re talking about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) or that juggernaut of tiny-tot empowerment, the...22:39 2019-07-11

Oddworld: Soulstorm gameplay: Abe’s old-school return is a beautiful thing Enlarge / An odd storm is brewing... (credit: Oddworld Inhabitants)
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Video game fans of a certain age may remember when pre-rendered sprites dominated every platform in the mid-90s. In the decades since, some of those games (like Donkey Kong Country) have turned out far more ti...21:13 2019-06-06

Hasselblad’s new medium format camera is a tiny, beautiful nod to history While mirrorless cameras accelerate into the future, medium format models are hearkening unto the past — and Hasselblad is chief among them. Its new digital back fits lenses going back to the ’50s, and the tiny 907X camera body is about as lovely a throwback as one can imagine.
The new set of...00:13 2019-06-21

Deadwood: The Movie review – brutal, beautiful farewell for a TV classic Thirteen years after it was abruptly cancelled, David Milch’s grimy, glorious western finally gets the ending it deserves. Take note, Game of Thrones!The moral panic caused by the Game of Thrones finale was a reminder that your biggest fan can turn Rupert Pupkin if they think you didn’t quite nail t...15:26 2019-05-30

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood review – Tom Hanks charms as Mister Rogers The star takes on the beloved children’s TV figure in a moving and engrossing departure from a traditional biopicIn last year’s lucrative yet scattershot documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the world of the much-loved children’s TV staple Mister Rogers was gently cracked open for an audience who ...11:39 2019-09-09

Elite Player Took Some Beautiful Screenshots Of His 18-Week Journey Across Space Earlier this year, a group of Elite: Dangerous players set out on an expedition that would take them across the entire Milky Way, all 130,000 light years of it. The journey took months, and some of its most beautiful and bizarre sights have been captured by aes3297 in this collection of screenshots....04:52 2019-06-19

Takis: his eye-popping and eerily beautiful magnetic marvels defined an era Effortlessly bridging the gap between the two cultures, the Greek sculptor – who has died aged 93 – played with invisible forces and put the truths of the cosmos on canvasThe Greek sculptor Takis, who has died at 93 during the run of an acclaimed Tate retrospective of his ingenious creations, was ha...19:52 2019-08-16

Kyle Kuzma Demonstrates Beautiful Touch As He Scores On His Own Basket Team USA is down to 13 players, who are all in contention for the final 12-man roster. With the FIBA World Cup just 10 days away, the squad played the first of a two-game exhibition against Australia on Thursday, and won comfortably, 102-86. During the first quarter, Donovan Mitchell skied for an im...02:26 2019-08-23

Trump says it’s ‘possible’ he’ll invite Russia to the G-7 next year President Trump on Sunday said “it’s possible” that he’ll invite Russia to attend the G-7 summit the US is hosting next year, even though European countries oppose allowing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to be readmitted. ​”We did discuss it. We had a very good discussio...09:00 2019-08-26

Ivanka Trump took in nearly $4M from DC hotel last year NEW YORK (AP) — Ivanka Trump took in nearly $4 million in revenue last year from her stake in President Donald Trump’s hotel down the street from the Oval Office, up slightly from a year earlier.
A financial disclosure report released by the White House on Friday also shows her fashion line of...20:39 2019-06-14

93-year-old D-Day vet flirts with Melania Trump A 93-year-old D-Day veteran couldn’t resist flirting with first lady Melania Trump after meeting her for the first time. President Trump warmly thanked the vet, Thomas Cuthbert, for his service at an event Wednesday in England commemorating the 75th anniversary of the invasion, according to th...17:26 2019-06-06

Trump cheers Dow's best week of the year The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more than 250 points Friday, ending the index's best week of the year, as lackluster economic news prompted speculation that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates....09:00 2019-06-08

Paw-sitively beautiful photo released of Desert Museum’s ocelot ‘kitten’ TUCSON – One of Pima County’s cutest fuzzballs is growing up.While she may be a tad bit bigger, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s ocelot “kitten”, Ida Zigglebaum still overloaded Tucson with her cuteness on Thursday after the 98-acre zoo shared her latest photo on Facebook...19:39 2019-09-13

Amino acids make beautiful music to design novel protein structures There's an app for that: Android users can now create their own bio-based musical compositions.
Nearly seven years ago, MIT scientists mapped the molecular structure of proteins in spider silk threads onto musical theory to produce the "sound" of silk in hopes of establishing a radical new way to ...19:26 2019-06-27

Amnesia afflicts an entire island in the urgent, beautiful Memory Police It starts with tiny things: ribbon, bells, perfume. When the people of an unnamed island in Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police lose all memory and appreciation of such objects, they gather to share their fading recollections of whatever has disappeared and physically destroy all trace of it, quickly mov...20:13 2019-08-12

Letter from the Editor: Here comes the sun At MNT, the team has been recovering from a recent heatwave. But as Managing Editor Honor Whiteman reveals, the temperature isn't the only thing on the up....04:26 2019-08-01

A letter to my dad’s old Volvo You were a television star – driven by Roger Moore in The Saint. You were a beautyMy first memory of you is my three siblings and I cramming into your tiny rear seat, which I am certain was never made for passengers – let alone four children with school bags. You are a family legacy, a cherished con...14:00 2019-08-10

Can Trump prevent a US recession in election year? Trump is pressuring the Fed to stave off a sharp economic downturn as he seeks reelection in 2020. The feelgood effects of his $1.5 billion program of tax cuts are due to run out soon, so what can he do?...09:26 2019-08-22

Swamp Thing Died a Beautiful, Misunderstood Virgin in Its Messy Series Finale Swamp Thing’s season one finale “Loose Ends” is aptly named. It’s the first of the ill-fated series’ episodes that telegraphs just how suddenly Warner Bros. canceled the show, while also reducing the length of the season from 13 episodes to 10 (while the crew was still shooting). It’s a hurried att...08:13 2019-08-03

A letter to… my friends with children ‘I do understand that your life has changed. But what about me? What about our friendship?’: the letter you always wanted to writeIt happens every time. I know it will, and I don’t begrudge it. Except I do, a bit. It’s happened so often, and now that I’m in my late 40s, and I am so practised at this...08:13 2019-09-14

A letter to… the woman who shot my dad ‘I want you to know that some good has come out of the darkness’: the letter you always wanted to writeIt’s only now that I wonder what impact shooting my dad at point-blank range has had on you. It wasn’t a crime of passion or an act of hatred, just an accident.It was the 1950s, and my dad was a yo...08:00 2019-07-20

A letter to… a very special au pair ‘Dark brown eyes and brown-black hair… you stole a little nine-year-old boy’s heart’: the letter you always wanted to writeThere were many au pairs through my pre-teen life – but then you arrived. Dark brown eyes. Brown‑black hair, naturally wavy. A skin colour I hadn’t seen up close before: delicat...08:26 2019-07-13

Letter: Tim Halliday obituary When Tim Halliday joined us in the biology department (as it was then called) at the Open University in 1977, he brought with him not only his love of all things amphibian but also a passionate commitment to teaching. His courses introduced thousands of OU students, many tackling science for the fir...19:26 2019-06-23

'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self In an exclusive extract from gal-dem’s new book, three twentysomethings revisit their diaries and reflect on identity, sexuality and cultural heritageToday at school everyone laughed at me because I said pomangranate. Apparently it’s pomegranate. Ammi and Appachchi say pomangranate???? So embarrassi...17:52 2019-06-01

A letter to… my ex’s partner, who understands ‘I’m sorry the payment has fallen on you. Thank you for giving your stepson what you can afford’: the letter you always wanted to writeWhen I check my bank account, I see your name. It’s not my son’s father paying the £7 weekly child maintenance contribution, it’s you. Like me, you have two children...08:52 2019-06-22

A letter to… my hypocritical father ‘We were never allowed our own meals or new toys – these would spoil us, you said’: the letter you always wanted to writeYou and my mother divorced when my sibling was two and I was a baby. You earned a great deal of money, but my motherwas too principled to take alimony, so we were raised within th...08:39 2019-08-03

A letter to the man who shushed my daughter ‘You don’t realise the courage it took to approach your table’: the letter you always wanted to writeI could tell you were getting edgy as you sat with your friends, drinking coffee and watching the crumbs from my eight-year-old daughter’s biscuit fall messily all over her school uniform. Your face ...16:26 2019-05-21

An Open Letter to Everyone Going to Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con isn’t the only major annual genre convention that takes place in the U.S., but it’s one of the largest and most significant—both because of its history and because it’s where many big announcements from studios and publishers about new releases are made. These are only some of th...05:00 2019-07-11

A year later, little impact after denying Trump aide dinner LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Tourism in a small Virginia town has suffered little in the year since The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The Roanoke Times reports that Lexington’s meals and lodging tax revenues are steady...01:39 2019-06-24

7-year-old boy is raising thousands to build Trump’s wall A 7-year-old boy from Texas has raised $22,000 to pay for the border wall — by selling $2 cups of hot chocolate, according to reports. Benton Stevens of Austin first set up shop in February outside a shopping mall, where he peddled the sweet treat and large “Nancy Pelosi” marshmallows fo...21:39 2019-06-06

A dignified end for beloved pets | Letter Robin Hargreaves, a past president of the British Veterinary Association, responds to Chas Newkey-Burden’s article on the ethics of keeping petsChas Newkey-Burden’s article (How can we say we love our pets when we treat them so badly?, theguardian.com, 25 May) makes some very valid points about the ...20:26 2019-06-02

A letter to… the neighbours who complain about our baby ‘We can’t turn his volume down. We can’t reason with him. He’s a baby’: the letter you always wanted to writeIt’s 2am and I’m sitting up in bed, breastfeeding my four-month-old son, running through in my head what I might say to you if I happen to bump into you on the stairs in our block of flats. I...09:52 2019-08-31

A letter to… my father, whose activism inspired my own ‘You weren’t always the greatest dad, but you were a first-class human being’: the letter you always wanted to writeYou weren’t always the greatest dad. You left us – my sister and me – when we were small. To your credit, you stuck around in England for a while, tried to make a go of it, even though...10:39 2019-08-17

A letter to… my dad, as he settles into a care home ‘When you confessed you were barricading yourself in your bedroom at night, we knew you couldn’t go on living alone’: the letter you always wanted to writeLast Friday was one of the most profound days of my life. You remembered you were going to try out a new living arrangement and had packed some c...10:26 2019-06-15

Best foot forward for the Lib Dems | Letter Covering hundreds of miles on foot helped me retain my council seat, says Geoff ReidShane O’Mara’s theories (This brain was made for walking, G2, 29 July) could do wonders for the recruitment of city-dwelling Lib Dem Focus deliverers. When I decided to opt for a third term on the city council in 201...02:13 2019-08-01

The environmental dangers of veganism | Letter Does anyone think a move to plant-based eating that includes monoculture, habitat destruction and food miles is something we should aim for, asks Matthew LoukesThe subheading on your article (The 14 rules for going vegan, G2, 19 June) says: “The environmental, health and ethical benefits of veganism...19:52 2019-06-23

Boy’s letter to mom about missing school bus goes viral One Missouri boy’s honest letter to his mother confessing that he missed the bus to school – and why that wasn’t such a bad thing – has left the Internet in hysterics, in a social media post that has since gone massively viral with nearly a million likes. One June 4, Sarah Holliday resurfaced an......23:13 2019-06-07

Battery benefits questioned | Letter Scottish Power claims it is making a ‘significant step’ forward with renewable energy, but David Miller has doubtsJillian Ambrose (Report, 11 June) claims that a 50MW battery system is a “significant step”. But how significant a step does not depend upon the instantaneous energy output in megawatts....19:00 2019-06-14

Learning to think and talk straight | Letter Brigid Purcell recommends a book, Straight and Crooked Thinking, that should be put into the hands of every teenagerDavid Thouless’s obituary (13 July) mentions his father, Robert, but fails to mention the latter’s most notable publication, which contains one of the most important contributions of t...04:39 2019-07-17

Ban the detention of pregnant women | Letter Emma Ginn, the director of Medical Justice, warns that women in immigration detention receive inadequate healthcareYou report how a pregnant rape survivor experiencing a miscarriage and barely able to stand was unlawfully held in immigration detention which amounted to inhuman and degrading treatmen...20:13 2019-08-20

Letter from the Editor: It's good to laugh In this month's letter, Managing Editor Honor reveals what the MNT editorial team got up to for their annual summer event, and it might just make you chuckle....19:39 2019-06-29

How to Write a Great Cover Letter A few weeks ago a close friend of mine posted a job on Facebook that was available in her office that just happened to be a perfect match for a different friend of mine that’s looking for a new job. I passed the info along to friend number two and connected them together....14:52 2019-07-01

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made as much as $135m last year In their second year as White House aides, couple took in funds from real estate holdings, stocks, and a book dealIvanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135m in income during their second year as aides to Donald Trump, generated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and ...08:52 2019-06-15

G7 summit: last rites of old order as Trump's theater looms next year Leaders put on a show of common endeavor with awareness that meeting could be a lot worse next year when Trump will be circus masterIf next year’s G7 summit turns out to be a branding event at a Trump golf resort in Florida, with Vladimir Putin as de-facto co-chair, the old guard among America’s all...23:39 2019-08-26

Ivanka Trump made nearly $4 million from the President's DC hotel last year Ivanka Trump made almost $4 million from her stake in the Trump Washington DC hotel last year, new White House financial disclosures show.
NBC news reported that in total the post office turned hotel made $40.8 million for the family in 2019.
The Trump family has come under fire in the past for pro...01:26 2019-06-16

Trump plans to hold July 4th ‘Salute to America’ every year President Donald Trump said on Monday that his Fourth of July “Salute to America” event was a “tremendous success” and he plans to hold the celebration every year “for the foreseeable future.” Trump said his holiday address — which was accompanied by displays of m...22:39 2019-07-08

Trump Lands in Asia for His Most Consequential Overseas Trip This Year OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump on Thursday began what is likely his most consequential overseas trip of the year, one that will present the “America First” president with a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do list.
Trump landed in Os...20:52 2019-06-27

G7 summit: last rites of old order as Trump's theatre looms next year Leaders put on a show of common endeavor with awareness that meeting could be a lot worse next year when Trump will be circus masterIf next year’s G7 summit turns out to be a branding event at a Trump golf resort in Florida, with Vladimir Putin as de-facto co-chair, the old guard among America’s all...09:13 2019-08-27

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About China’s ‘Worst Year’ China has experienced its “worst year” in 57 years, the president said Wednesday, a few years short of the 61 years he estimated last week and a couple of decades more than the 35 years he claimed last month....10:52 2019-09-05

Trump drilling leases could create more climate pollution than EU does in a year US has offered close to 378m acres of public lands and waters for oil and gas leasing since Trump took office through April 2019Donald Trump’s leases of public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling could lead to the production of more climate-warming pollution than the entire European Union cont...07:52 2019-07-17

Joe Arpaio announces bid for sheriff reelection one year after Trump pardon Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio on Sunday announced he would seek another term as sheriff of Maricopa County, one year after President Donald Trump pardoned him. He had been convicted on charges of criminal contempt related to the hard-line tactics he used to crack down on undocumented immigrants....03:13 2019-08-27

The 3-letter word that's missing from the showdown with Iran AP Photo/ISNA
The US is in the middle of a showdown with Iran, stoked by incidents in the Persian Gulf and a protracted dispute over the 2015 nuclear deal.
But behind the present round of tensions is the US's long-running desire to the control the movement of a resource that Iran is in a unique pos...20:13 2019-07-12

A letter to... a holiday romance that changed my life ‘You imprinted on my soul. You changed me for ever’: the letter you always wanted to writeI was a 26-year-old American travelling with my little sister to enjoy a week-long Greek island-hopping cruise. You were a 24-year-old Canadian on holiday, before your second year of medical school.We both had ...12:00 2019-08-24

K2-18b: every habitable planet surely has life | Letter As a new world with life-sustaining qualities is discovered, Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe discusses the likelihood that life has taken rootYour report that water vapour, perhaps even rain, has been detected in a planet in the so-called Goldilocks zone of a distant star is of no surprise because water...20:26 2019-09-12

To end online harms we must address misogyny | Letter MPs and activists call for straight talking and urge the government to protect and empower womenWomen around the world are 27 times more likely to be harassed online than men. In Europe, 9 million girls have experienced some kind of online violence by the time they are 15 years old. In the UK, 21% o...20:39 2019-09-06

'Borderlands 3' is a frenetic love letter to mayhem Borderlands 3 will squeeze every last drop of endorphin from your pituitary gland. And that's before you reach the boss fight. I went hands-on with the latest iteration of Gearbox Software's frenetic first-person shooter RPG at E3 on Wednesday and wa......10:39 2019-06-13

Comment Of The Day: One Letter Makes A Difference Edition From the beginning Faraday Future sounded a bit too good to be true. The FFZero1 concept had me salivating at the prospect of a proper electric sports car. The “production” FF91 was ugly but fast and functional. It was very convincing, what with the CES rollout and lots of media coverage. For the la...11:13 2019-09-05

A letter to … the childhood friend I fell in love with ‘Deciding to break ties with you was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done’: the letter you always wanted to writeYou were everything to me, once upon a time. Smart, funny, beautiful, talented, short-tempered and stubborn, thoughtlessly generous, and with a huge soft spot for an underdog. You were...09:00 2019-05-25

Portrush parade is nothing to do with the Orange Order | Letter Dr Gordon Ramsey responds to a column claiming that a band parade has given golf’s Open championship an embarrassing problemAs an academic who has researched marching band traditions in Northern Ireland, I must point out that, contrary to Ewan Murray’s article (Portrush Orange parade gives the Open ...18:26 2019-07-04

Palliative care in hospitals is inconsistent | Letter Anne Denham relates the story of a family member with terminal cancer who died in pain and distressI was interested to read Charlotte Church’s article (So Nana is dead. I’m glad we got time for a proper goodbye, G2, 26 August) on the excellent palliative care her grandmother received before her deat...04:39 2019-09-04

The Time I Wrote George Lucas A Letter Growing up in the 1980s, I was a huge Star Wars fan. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Empire Strikes Back. I loved it. Like everyone else, I eagerly awaited Lucas’ overdue return to the director’s chair. And in 1994, I wrote him a letter asking about the then-unmade future episodes.Re...14:13 2019-09-04

Congress approves Trump-backed two-year spending, debt limit deal The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President Donald Trump a two-year budget deal that would increase federal spending on defense and an array of other domestic programs, significantly adding to rapidly escalating government debt....19:52 2019-08-01

An open letter to my Macbook Pro, on which I spilled coffee this morning My dearest MacBook Pro, I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. It wasn’t meant to be like this. We’ve spent five beautiful years together and, honestly, they’ve been the best of my life. We’ve shared almost everything together, the highs and the lows. But… God, this is tough. I was sitting down to write this ...15:00 2019-06-18

Atom spy Klaus Fuchs was motivated by conscience | Letter John Green says it’s simplistic to describe as a ‘traitor’ the physicist who supplied information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet UnionGraham Farmelo’s review of a new book by Frank Close about the atom spy Klaus Fuchs (Review, 17 August) fails completely to understand the motivation of Fu...20:13 2019-08-20

In full: Theresa May's Brexit letter to Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister Theresa May has written a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urging him to back her new Brexit deal, saying she has met the party's Brexit demands. Here is her letter in full:...13:00 2019-05-22

Wu-Tang rapper RZA backs fur ban in letter to City Council The city’s proposed fur ban got a high profile backer Wednesday — legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA. The New York native collaborated with animal rights group PETA to write an email pushing city council members to “help NYC move into the future of fashion” by supporting Johns...07:52 2019-05-30

WFE Open Letter to Global Financial Policy Makers ##GlossaryLink value='1'##Following the General Assembly of the World Federation of Exchanges in Milan on 13 and 14 October, the WFE wrote an open letter to global financial policy makers about the role exchanges can play in the current economic situation. ......13:26 2019-05-22

Yemen’s president in letter to UN chief criticizes his envoy SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s president has sent a letter to the U.N. chief criticizing his envoy to the war-torn Arab country over allegedly siding with the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s letter to António Guterres was released late Thursday.
In the letter...14:39 2019-05-24

Maduro criticizes UN human rights report in letter Embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has written a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to reject the content of a report in which Bachelet highlighted "patterns of violations of all human rights" at the hands of the Venezuelan state....02:01 2019-07-13

A letter to … my brother, who stopped talking to me when I adopted a child ‘You froze me out. Even when I stood in front of you at a party, you stared ahead as if I wasn’t there’That day, as we started to organise our uncle’s funeral, we spent the whole time together – a rarity as adults, although we are only a year and four days apart. It was a sad occasion, but nice to s...09:26 2019-06-08

A Love Letter to My Fisher Price On-The-Go Baby Dome Our son was two months old, the days were getting warmer and as freshly new parents who were just barely surviving the newborn days, we were ready to get out of the house. But where would put the baby? If we wanted to go out to the park and have a picnic, it’d be weird to leave him in the stroller. ...03:13 2019-06-14

From the archive: An American’s love letter to London from 1965 How did visitors from across the pond view our capital back in the 60s? According to this feature published in 1965 in the Observer, it was best to see it on foot…The Observer Magazine issue of 18 April 1965 was a guide to London, introduced with a feature by Paul Mandel, an American. The thrust of ...09:52 2019-05-26

U.S. Senate aims to pass Trump-backed two-year spending, debt limit deal The U.S. Senate on Thursday will try to complete a months-long effort by lawmakers and the Trump administration to set spending levels for the next two years for the military and numerous domestic programs while also temporarily suspending limits on government borrowing authority....17:52 2019-08-01

A Letter from the Alleged Christchurch Mosque Attacker Has Been Posted Online (WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — New Zealand officials admitted Wednesday that they made a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a hand-written letter from his prison cell.
The six-page letter from Brenton Tarrant was posted this week on the we...11:52 2019-08-14

Letter From Former Middle School Teacher Accused Principal Of Bullying ANDERSON COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18/Anderson County News)– A letter written by a former middle school teacher accused of threatening to cut off a student’s genitals in 2017 has surfaced this week.
The letter was obtained by the Anderson County News and is from former middle school teacher Chrys...01:52 2019-06-06

Madonna’s ‘older white woman’ letter from Tupac will be sold Tupac Shakur’s revealing break-up letter to Madonna is finally hitting the auction block July 17. The pop icon waged a lengthy court battle, but the New York Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the three-page, hand-written letter now belongs to the auction company Gotta Have It! Collectibles. ...17:52 2019-07-11

U.S. assures support to American tech firms in India in letter The United States ambassador to India has written to top American technology firms assuring them of support for a level playing field in India, a letter seen by Reuters showed, amid Washington's concerns over New Delhi's protectionist policies....19:26 2019-08-19

Mexican finance minister quits with scathing resignation letter Mexico's finance minister, Carlos Urzúa, quit abruptly on Tuesday, with a letter of resignation that appeared highly critical of the current administration, and raised questions about the president's much-vaunted promise to reduce corruption....00:13 2019-07-10

Long-lost Thomas Jefferson letter on Revolutionary War found A letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson that had been lost to historians for over a century has surfaced. The letter, which is priced at $80,000, is up for sale at Ardmore, Pa.-based historical document dealer Raab Collection. Written in the final year of Jefferson’s life, the letter re...18:39 2019-06-27

Alleged Christchurch mosque gunman sends letter from prison cell New Zealand's prison authority has acknowledged it made a mistake in allowing the alleged Christchurch mosque attacker to send a letter, which later surfaced on 4chan, an online message board known for hosting the views of white supremacists....17:52 2019-08-14

A love letter to Notting Hill carnival: 'It keeps our culture alive’ – video Notting Hill carnival, held every summer in west London, is the biggest street party in Europe. Coverage of the event often focuses on negative stories and misses the celebration of the community and culture that makes the Carnival so important for London. The Guardian asks carnival veterans why th...13:00 2019-08-20

North Korea tells United Nations to cut international aid staff: letter North Korea has told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body's programs have failed "due to the politicization of U.N. assistance by hostile forces," according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday....04:13 2019-09-05

Cardinal George Pell: purported letter from prison sparks investigation Victorian justice department says prisoners are not allowed to post on social media or ask others to post on their behalfAuthorities are investigating whether a letter circulating online, apparently written by disgraced Cardinal George Pell to supporters breaks prison rules.The letter, dated 1 Augus...21:52 2019-08-10

Name-dropping John Crudele solved letter writer’s estate problem Dear John: I have an issue with Kings County Surrogate’s Court. In order to obtain unclaimed funds for my father, I need Letters of Voluntary Administration for his aunt’s estate. I took my father to Kings County court, filled out the information on computer, and then sent the notarized packet in. I...17:13 2019-07-14

'It's time to speak up': an open letter to Colin Kaepernick | Etan Thomas Your protest started a conversation and inspired an entire generation of athlete activists to find their voices, but the time for silence is over. We need to hear directly from youDear Colin,My son Malcolm and I are big fans of yours. I remember the day when Malcolm, who was around 11 at the time, s...13:00 2019-08-20

Saudi Arabia defends letter backing China's Xinjiang policy Saudi Arabia on Thursday defended signing a letter along with 36 other countries in support of China's policies in its western region of Xinjiang, where the United Nations says at least 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained....01:52 2019-07-19

Final Fantasy XV's Lead Designer's New Game Is A Love Letter To Live Music No Straight Roads is a rhythm game inspired by the strong visual storytelling of Psychonauts. Playing it feels like rocking out in front of a surreal, vibrant crowd. At E3 last week, I was able to play a short demo that included the first boss fight, and as someone who also loves live music, I was p...23:39 2019-06-18